Discuss the difference between real culture and ideal culture.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. The ideal culture comprises the beliefs, values, and norms that people say they hold or follow. In every society, however, ideal culture differs from real culture, or people's actual everyday behavior. Ideal culture and actual behavior are often inconsistent.
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Although individuals often do not perceive this, culture acts as a restraint
a. true b. false
Just as physical characteristics are used by the majority to belittle racial minorities, cultural differences are used to demonstrate the alleged inferiority of a(n) ____
a. social group b. ethnic minority c. dominant majority d. race e. reference group
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Parents do not provide equal help to all of their children. 2. The Pew Research Center found that 58% of adults with parents older than age 65 helped their parents with tasks like errands, housework, or home repairs. 3. Although African Americans and Latinos are more likely to live close to their kin than Whites, Whites are more likely to exchange financial assistance with their kin than are African Americans and Latinos. 4. Parents are more likely to say that they are emotionally close to their adult children than adult children are to say that they are emotionally close to their parents.
Which is the most severe form of discrimination?
A. genocide B. segregation C. expulsion D. exclusion